Well Hello Virgin America

So, if any of you are like me and stick to the popular commercial airlines such as American Airlines, Delta, SouthWest, etc..you’ve never heard of Virgin America. Well, at least I haven’t. After reading an article this morning about how Virgin America caters to techie travelers, I just may have to check them out sometime [...]

Tags: Airline, America, City, Diggnation, Ethernet, Fly, Logo, Revision3, Tech Show, Travel, Traveler, Virgin, Virgin Mobile, Web, Web Shows

Verizon mixes up two subscribers private info, wont fix!

To put it bluntly, Verizon has shown that they don’t care – at all – about protecting their users private, confidential information. Two random subscribers can see each others private details – address, phone numbers, credit card details, account info, etc. After multiple service requests, Verizon continues to ignore it. Identity theft anyone?
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ServerBeach Farewell to YouTube

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Steve Chen, Founder“When YouTube first started to experience its exponential growth and our hosting needs changed, ServerBeach offered us great flexibility. They continually redesigned our streaming architecture for optimum performance while keeping our hosting costs in check.”
YouTube’s beginning days were with ServerBeach. They grew at an incredible speed and ServerBeach, a PEER 1 company was [...]

Tags: Angela Ramirez, Comedy, Hardware, hosting, Network, Parody, PEER 1, Self-managed hosting, ServerBeach, Steve Chen, un-managed hosting, Video, YouTube

Microsoft flip-flop

Microsoft reverses itself again on Vista virtualization. Flip-flopping in an election year, sure… but not from your software vendor.
Nonetheless, Microsoft has changed its mind again, saying it will allow users to run Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium as guest operating systems on a virtual machine. Now, this is good news for [...]

Tags: announcement, Mac, Operating System, OS, Parallels, Vendor, Virtual, Vista, Vista Home, Vista Premium

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP Encrypts VoIP

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP has always had the ability to combine politics and technology. In the 1980’s, Zimmermann was a software engineer by day and pulling a double work load as a military police analyst for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. By doing this, he saw the need to develop e-mail software [...]

Tags: Creator, Developer, Encrypted, Encryption, Interview, key, Magazine, P2P, Peer to Peer, PGP, Phil Zimmerman, phone, Protocol, RTP, SDK, security, Servers, SIP, software, source, Source Code, VoIP, Zfone, ZRTP